Helen Newell Garfield* (d. 1930): Diaries, 1881-1915 (2 boxes); general letters, 1892-1921 (10 boxes); letters, “French Orphans,” 1916 and 1921 (2 boxes).
Warren G. Harding* (1865-1923), Papers of, 1888-1923, microfilm (263 reels).
Originals held by Ohio Historical Society, Columbus OH.
Warren Gamaliel Harding*: Ohio Central College, Iberia; briefly taught school and sold insurance; reporter, editor, publisher, and owner, from 1884, Marion OH Star; Ohio legislature, 1899-1903 and Lieutenant Governor, 1903-05; U.S. Senate, 1915-21, Republican, Ohio; U.S. President, 1921-23.
“Business, personal, and political papers from Harding's early years; . . . U.S. Senatorial correspondence, 1915-1921; pre-election and campaign papers, 1919-1921, relating to his nomination and campaign for the Presidency; official and personal Presidential papers, 1921-1923; material on his Alaska trip, 1923; speeches and appointment books; documents relating to Harding's death and the disposition of his estate; genealogical data; correspondence and clippings relating to Harding's Presidency collected by his wife, Florence Kling DeWolfe; records, 1923-1931, of the Harding Memorial Association relating to the construction of Harding Memorial.
Includes papers of George B. Christian, Sr., and George B. Christian, Jr.; and papers of Kathleen Lawler, including her unpublished biography of the Hardings and material about Albert B. Fall. Also includes papers of Cyril Clemens, Hoke Donithen, Charles E. Hard, Ray B. Harris, Malcolm Jennings, Charles E. Sawyer, and Frank E. Scobey.”
Warren G. Harding* (1865-1923), Papers of, 1908-1923.
“285 items, 4 containers. Restrictions apply (in part).”
Rudyard Kipling Collection,
Rudyard Kipling* (1865-1936): Born in Bombay, India, son of English civil servant; educated in England, 1871-81; returned to India, worked for English language newspapers, published poetry, became a traveling correspondent; obtained copyrights in the United States, 1891; married sister of his American publisher, owned lot and built house in Brattleboro VT, 1892-1902, but lived in England after 1896; visited South Africa, 1899-1900, wrote about Boer War; Nobel Prize, Literature, 1907; lost son, John Kipling, at front, 1915; wrote articles through 1923 about aspects of World War I; co-author: Barrack-Room Ballads and other Verses (1892); author: The Jungle Book (1894), and others; memoir: Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown (1937).
Manuscript Division:
Papers, ca. 1897-1936 (9 items).
“In part, photocopy and typewritten transcript.”
Rare Book Division:
Letters, 1882-1919, concerning publication of his works in America and some comments on American politics (1896-1919, 2 v.).
George B. McClellan* (1865-1940), Papers of, 1838-1922 (10/17).
Includes letters, 1838-1907, of his parents, General and Mrs. George B. McClellan, Sr. (1826-1885).
George Brinton McClellan*: Princeton, 1886, and LL. D., 1905; newspaper reporter and editor; New York Bar, 1892; Treasurer, 1889-93, New York and Brooklyn Bridge; U.S. Congress, 1895-1903, Democrat, New York; Mayor, 1904-09, New York City; Professor of Economic History, from 1912, Princeton; Major to Lieutenant Colonel, 1917-19, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army; author: The Oligarchy of Venice (1904), Venice and Bonaparte (1931), and others.
“Correspondence; college scrapbooks; diary of military experiences in World War I; subject file relating mainly to McClellan's political activities; articles, lectures, and other MSS., printed materials, photographs, and memorabilia.
Correspondents include Nicholas Murray Butler, Grover Cleveland, Jean J. Jusserand, Robert Lansing, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge, J. Pierpont Morgan, Alfred E. Smith, William H. Taft, Henry Van Dyke, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Diary, 1917-18 (1 box); letters, 1896-1920 (4 boxes); subject files, 1896-20 (2 boxes).
Chandler Parsons Anderson* (1866-1936), Papers of, 1896-1935 (38/64).
“Specialist in international law,” legal advisor, 1905-10, 1914-15 and counselor, 1910-13, U.S. State Department; counselor for other countries, 1918-21.
“Correspondence, diary notes, informal records and notes of negotiations, typewritten and printed documents, and MS. notes for articles and editorials. Includes material on boundary disputes, inland and international fisheries negotiations, claims commissions and disarmament conferences. The collection consists primarily of correspondence with prominent officials of the U.S. and other governments, editors of professional journals regarding publication of his articles, and other matters.
Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Otis T. Cartright, Charles Evans Hughes, David Starr Jordan, Philander C. Knox, Robert Lansing, Frank Polk, Elihu Root, James B. Scott, and Charles B. Warren.”
General letters, 1894-1920 (3 boxes); diaries, 1914-22 (2 boxes); office files, 1896-1920 (32 boxes).
John Barrett* (1866-1938), Papers of, 1861-1943, bulk: 1907-33.
Journalist, diplomat; Minister: Siam, 1894-98, Argentina, 1902-03, Panama, 1904, Colombia, 1905-07, U.S. State Department; war correspondent, Philippines, 1898; Director General, Pan American Union, 1907-21.
“Family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, subject files, writings and speeches, financial papers, reports, biographical materials, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers relating principally to Barrett's career as a journalist in California, Washington, and Oregon; his appointments as U.S. minister to Argentina, Colombia, Panama, and Thailand; his duties at the Pan American Union; and his work as a counselor and arbiter in the area of Pan American commercial relations. Other topics include Barrett's travels in East Asia, his duties as special adviser to Admiral George Dewey during the Philippine Insurrection, the Venezuelan boundary dispute, the Panama Canal, and the general area of relations between the U.S. and Latin America.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (42 boxes); newspapers and clippings, mainly concerning Latin America, 1896-1920 (9 boxes); maps (2 boxes); letters, 1896-1907 (6 boxes); letters, mainly Pan American Union, 1907-20 (10 boxes). Biographer’s papers (9 boxes).
Breckinridge Family Papers, 1752-1965
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches and articles, subject files, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, and other papers of various Breckinridge family members. . . .
Correspondents include Jane Addams, Henry T. Allen, Alben William Barkley, Braxton Bragg, Carrie Chapman Catt, William Conant Church, Grover Cleveland, John F. Condon, Harold W. Dodds, Jubal Anderson Early, Antoinette Funk, Edward Miner Gallaudet, A. W. Greely, Ernest Gruening, James Guthrie, John Marshall Harlan, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Hilary A. Herbert, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Loftin Johnson, Alfred M. Landon, H. W. Lawton, Robert E. Lee, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), William McKinley, James Madison, John Marshall, Nelson Appleton Miles, Samuel Miller, James Monroe, John Hunt Morgan, Frances Perkins, Horace Porter, Hjalmar Johna Fredrik Procopé, Redfield Proctor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, T. O. Selfridge, Anna Howard Shaw, Isaac Shelby, Jouett Shouse, Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, Adlai E. Stevenson (1835-1914), Oscar Straus, Fred M. Vinson, James Wolcott Wadsworth, William Allen White, Woodrow Wilson, and Stephen Samuel Wise.”
Letters, 1896-1904 (32 v.); letterbooks, 1896-1903 (29 boxes); woman suffrage papers, 1896-1903 (25 boxes).
Sophonista Preston Breckinridge* (1866-1948), letters, 1896-1920 (3/3)
Dean, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago; associate of Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago IL; pioneer in the field of social work and social legislation.
Henry Breckinridge* (1886-1960), Papers of, 1913-1954.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, 1913-16; AEF in Europe; attorney, New York City.
Diary, 1914-16 (1 box); family and special letters, 1913-45 (5 boxes); general, personal and professional letters, 1913-16 (7 boxes).
Abraham Flexner* (1866-1959), Papers of, 1865-1989, bulk: 1900-1959.
Johns Hopkins University, 1886; public high school teacher, 1886-90, and founder and head, 1890-1905, preparatory school, Louisville KY; Harvard M.A., 1906; graduate work, 1907-08, University of Berlin; joined, 1908, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; “Flexner Report,” 1910: Medical Education in the United States and Canada; Assistant Secretary and Secretary, 1913-25, and Director, 1925-28, Division of Studies and Medical Education, General Education Board.
“Correspondence, research material for Flexner's Medical Education, reports, notes, family papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Flexner's activities in educational reform.”
“Family correspondents include his wife Anne Crawford Flexner, daughters Jean Atherton Flexner and Eleanor Flexner, Bernard Flexner, Hortense Flexner, and James Thomas Flexner.
Other correspondents include Louis Bamberger, John D. Barrett, E. Michael Bluestone, Welles Bosworth, W. R. Boyd, Wallace Buttrick, Huntington Cairns, Evans Clark, Richard Courant, Thomas Stephen Cullen, Harold W. Dodds, Albert Einstein, Raymond Blaine Fosdick, Robert J. Getty, Jean Gottmann, Paul H. Hanus, Caryl Parker Haskins, James Hazen Hyde, William S. Learned, Herbert H. Lehman, Charles A. Lindbergh, E. A. Lowe, Paul Mantoux, Violet R. Markham, Thomas H. McKittrick, Paul Mellon, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Allan Nevins, John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960), Julius Rosenwald, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Dean Rusk, Ellery Sedgwick, William Henry Welch, Hermann Weyl, Sir E. L. Woodward, and the Ford Foundation.”
Family letters, 1908-26 (2 boxes); letters concerning medical education, 1909-12 (4 boxes); Carnegie Foundation President Henry S. Pritchett's letters during his service, 1901-10, on the U.S. Light-House Board (1 box).
William J. Ghent* (1866-1942), Papers of, 1876-1942.
William James Ghent*: Editor, 1897-98, American Fabian; contributor, 1900-13, The Independent; Secretary, 1906-09, and President, 1909-11, Rand School of Social Science; Secretary, 1911-12 to Victor L. Berger; editor, 1915-17, California Outlook; member, 1917-19, Executive Committee, American Alliance for Labor and Democracy; contributor, 1919-20, Weekly Review; author: Our Benevolent Feudalism (1902); Mass and Class: A Survey of Social Divisions (1904); The Reds Bring Reaction (1923).
“Correspondence, memoranda, MSS., notes, reports, subject files, photographs, clippings, and printed material relating to Ghent's writings on the West and the Socialist movement in the United States. Includes MSS. of biographical sketches appearing in the Dictionary of American Biography and articles and book reviews appearing in trade journals. Also includes diaries of Edward S. Godfrey and Holmes O. Paulding, participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Correspondents include J. Nelson Barry, Charles Francis Bates, Charles A. Beard, E. A. Brininstool, P. E. Byrne, Elizabeth Custer (Mrs. George A.), Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, Stella M. Drumm, Fred Dustin, Grant Foreman, Edward S. Godfrey, Mrs. Edward S. Godfrey, W. A. Graham, Leroy F. Hafen, Grace Raymond Hebard, J. Franklin Jameson, Charles Kelly, Lougmans, Green and Company, Dumas Malone, Gustavus Myers, William W. Neifert, Allan Nevins, Don Russell, Edwin L. Sabine, Fred A. Sims, Upton Sinclair, John Spargo, Mark Sullivan, George W. Webb, and Maurice Williams.”
Arranged alphabetically: General letters, 1914-42, mainly after 1920 (7 boxes); articles, book reviews, 1902-41 (6 boxes); book file, 1902-36 (5 boxes); notes (2 boxes); subject files, 1876-1942 (11 boxes); clippings, arranged by subject (14 boxes).
James G. Harbord* (1866-1947), Papers of, 1886-1938, bulk: 1918-1919 (40/42).
Kansas State Agricultural College, 1886; enlisted private, later commissioned, 1891, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army; after 1898, Cuba occupation and Philippines; Mexican border with General John J. Pershing, 1916; AEF, France, 1917-19; Brigadier General and Chief, 1917-18, of Pershing’s Staff; commanded, June-July 1918, a U.S. Marine brigade near Chateau-Thierry, France and the 2nd (Army) Division in the Soissons offensive; Chief, late July 1918-19, Service of Supply; Major General and Chief, 1919, of the American Military Mission to Armenia; Vice-Chief of Staff, 1921-22, U.S. Army, under General Pershing; President and later, Board Chair, 1922-47, Radio Corporation of America; author: Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia (1920); The American Army in France, 1917-1919 (1936).
“Bulk of collection concerns Harbord's service in World War I. . . . Includes administrative memoranda of General Pershing, records of conversations, a personal diary, clippings, a portrait, scrapbooks, confidential cables, records of the 2nd Division, operation maps, barrage charts, sketches, and translations of war diaries of German units.
Correspondents include Leonard Wood, Newton D. Baker, William H. Taft, John J. Pershing, and Frank McIntyre.”
Private letters, 1896-1916 (5 v.); personal letters and activities, 1917-19 (6 v.); AEF records, 1917-19 (14 v.); English translations, German diaries, 1918 (9 v.); Stars and Stripes, 1918-19 (3 v.).
Alexander Jeffrey McKelway* (1866-1918), Papers of, 1860-1932 (7/9).
Secretary, Southern Office, National Child Labor Committee.
“Correspondence and speeches in regard to the political and social aspects of child labor in the South; Georgia Historical Society and Hoke Smith; Harper’s Weekly and Norman Hapgood; and prohibition. The McKelway family papers contain boyhood letters of Ben McKelway, editor of the Washington Star, and other papers pertaining to the life of St. Clair McKelway.
Correspondents include Josephus Daniels, Henry F. Keenan, Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1898-1920 (3 boxes); addresses, child labor (2 boxes); prohibition (1 box).
Gutzon Borglum* (1867-1941), Papers of, 1895-1960, bulk: 1912-1941.
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum*: Sculptor; campaigner, 1912, for Theodore Roosevelt and Progressive Party.
“Correspondence, diaries, family papers, subject files, speeches and writings, and other papers. Relates primarily to Borglum's artistic works, especially the Mount Rushmore National Memorial and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial. Also includes material relating to his involvement in politics; aviation and his membership in various aeronautics societies and investigation into federal government contracts with aeronautics industries during World War I; in various civic affairs including highway planning; in Indian affairs primarily relating to the Oglala Sioux Indians of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.D.; and his activities as a Freemason.
Correspondents include Henry H. Arnold, Newton D. Baker, Calvin Coolidge, Josephus Daniels, Daniel Chester French, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Harold L. Ickes, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Robert Todd Lincoln, Auguste Rodin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jacob Schiff, George Bernard Shaw, William Allen White, Woodrow Wilson, and Frank Lloyd Wright.”
Diaries, 1899-1920 (1 box); family papers, 1895-1947 (1 box); general letters, alphabetical (47 boxes); subject file, 1895-1960 (80 boxes), including: aircraft investigation, 1918 (7 boxes), financial papers, 1896-1920 (2 boxes), highways (2 boxes), Indian affairs (2 boxes), International Sporting Club (1 box), politics, 1910-16 (1 box), Progressive Party (2 boxes), art works (35 boxes).
Lyman Judy Carlock* (1867-1903), Papers of, 1899-1905 (1/2).
Attorney; judge, 1901-03, Philippines; died April 20, 1903, Cebu City, Philippines.
“Correspondence, diary (190l), legal papers, scrapbook, clippings, printed material, and memorabilia, largely relating to Carlock's service in the Philippines. Later papers concern his death, estate,” and spouse: Lila Mable Riddle* Carlock.
“Correspondents include Joseph V. Graff and William Howard Taft.”
Letters and documents, some in Spanish (1/2 box).
Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie* (1867-1915), Papers of, ca. 1892-1915 (1/1).
Edwin C. Dinwiddie*: Wittenberg College and Seminary, Springfield OH, 1894, licensed Evangelical Lutheran minister, and full-time worker in the temperance movement; State Superintendent, from 1897, Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League; expert and Legislative Superintendent, 1899-1907 and 1911-20, in Washington DC, American Anti-Saloon League; President, 1920-21, International Congress Against Alcoholism.
“Scrapbook, ca. 1892-1905, containing correspondence, tracts, pamphlets, clippings, and other papers pertaining to temperance; and indexed list, 1913-1915, of resolutions in the U.S. Congress concerning prohibition.” Includes printed and mimeographed literature of the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and American Anti-Saloon Leagues.
Finley Peter Dunne* (1867-1936), Papers of, 1889-1936 (160 items).
Born Peter Finley Dunne*: Chicago IL journalist, political and social commentator, humorist, author: Mr. Dooley in Peace and War (1898), etc.
Letters received from “publishers, editors, political figures, labor leaders, and others relating primarily to the chief character in many of Dunne's books, Mr. Dooley, and to Mr. Dooley's observations.
Correspondents include H. M. Daugherty and Theodore Roosevelt.”
Frank H. Hitchcock* (1867-1935), Papers of, 1905-1935 (2/4).
Frank Harris Hitchcock*: Recommended appointment, 1892, of naturalist Edward Alexander Preble (1871-1957) to U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey; Chair, 1908-09, Republican National Committee; U.S. Postmaster General, 1909-1913.
“Correspondence, journals, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating largely to Hitchcock's service in Washington and as a publisher in Arizona.
Correspondents include Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, George B. Cortelyou, and Theodore Roosevelt.”
Memorabilia and letters, 1905-20, “from distinguished friends” (2 boxes).
John Archer Lejeune* (1867-1942), Papers of, 1815-1950, bulk: 1900-1942 (8/20).
Louisiana State University, B.A. and U.S. Naval Academy, 1888; U.S. Marine Corps, 1890-1929; U.S.S. Vandalia, 1889, hurricane in Samoa; U.S.S. Cincinnati, Spanish-American War; Marine operations in Haiti, Panama, and Veracruz Llave, Mexico; commanded Second Army Division, AEF; Major General and Commandant, 1920-29, U.S. Marine Corps; Superintendent, 1929-37, Virginia Military Institute.
“Family and general correspondence, memoranda, speeches and writings, notes, military papers, and printed materials relating to Lejeune's education, military career, and tenure at VMI, Lexington VA.
Correspondents include John E. Ausland, Newton D. Baker, George Barnett, Hugo L. Black, Smedley Butler, John H. Craige, Josephus Daniels, Gordon Dorrance, James G. Harbord, R. S. Keyser, Charles E. Kilbourne, Rufus H. Lane, Augustus Lejeune, Charles G. Long, John J. Pershing, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John H. Russell, Charles P. Summerall, Park Trammell, Hugh H. Trout, Carl Vinson, and Littleton W. T. Waller.”
Family letters, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); subject file, Marine Corps, 1904-20 (3 boxes).
Henry Justin Allen* (1868-1950), Papers of, 1896-1942, bulk 1919-42 (42/214).
Publisher, Wichita (KS) Beacon, 1907-28; unsuccessful Progressive candidate, 1914, and elected Kansas Governor, Republican, 1919-23; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1912 and Progressive National Conventions, 1912, 1916; American Red Cross, France, 1917-18.
“Correspondence, supplemented by speeches, articles, printed matter, clippings, and miscellaneous papers, chiefly 1919-1942, relating to Allen's public career, especially his terms as governor and U.S. senator. Includes papers documenting Allen's business activities and his work on behalf of Near East Relief, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, and Save the Children Federation. Other subjects include the Court of Industrial Relations, the Allen-Gompers debate, Industrial Workers of the World, National Nonpartisan League, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Correspondents include Will H. Hays, Harold L. Ickes, Alfred M. Landon, Arthur Vandenberg, William Allen White, and Leonard Wood.”
Letters, speeches, articles, 1896-1918 (2 boxes); special letters, 1918-23 (1 box); general letters, 1919-20 (4 boxes); labor relations, 1919-21 (3 boxes); Henry J. Allen-Samuel Gompers debate, 1920-21 (2 boxes); IWW-Non-Partisan League, 1919-22 (1 box); presidential file, 1920 (1 box); Constitutional amendments, 1919-23 (2 boxes); legislative file, 1920-21 (1 box); 35th Division, U.S. Army controversy, 1918-19 (2 boxes); Ku Klux Klan.
Emil Amberg* (1868- ), Papers of, 1898-1934 (1/3).
Prominent Detroit MI physician and surgeon; pioneer in medical ethics and legislation, Wayne County Medical Society, Detroit MI; later, defender of Jews against attacks by Henry Ford and Father Coughlin.
“Correspondence, documents (including bills and acts), clippings, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating to the pioneer work of the Wayne County Medical Society, Detroit, on interstate medical reciprocity and uniform medical legislation throughout the U.S., the subsequent adoption of its proposal by the American Medical Association, medical education, ethics, law, and attitudes of the AMA on various medical and medicopolitical problems, Samuel Hahnemann, and other medical and scientific topics.”
Letters, 1898-1920 (1 box).
Solon Hannibal Borglum* (1868-1922), papers, 1897-1928.
Sculptor; founder, 1902, School of Art, Silvermine CT; founder, 1918, AEF School of Fine Arts, France; founder, 1920, American School of Sculpture, New York City.
“Correspondence, articles, photographs, scrapbook of clippings, biographical material, and printed materials relating to Borglum's commissioned works and to his activities as head of the Silvermine, Conn., group of artists, American School of Sculpture, and American Expeditionary Force School of Fine Art.
Correspondents include Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Booker T. Washington, and Leonard Wood.”
Letters, 1898-1922, related to his commissioned works, articles, and schools (5 boxes).
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